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The world will be watching on PANGEA DAY, May 10

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"Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.
Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film."

-- from Pangea Day overview (http://www.pangeaday.org/aboutPangeaDay.php)

Read and watch more here, http://www.pangeaday.org/.

<A choir in one country singing another country's national anthem - from Pangea Day films>
- Imagine! France sings for USA
- Imagine! Kenya sings for India
- Imagine! Japan sings for Turkey
...

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2008/05/05 23:57 2008/05/05 23:57

Invitation to join the world on May 10 for Pangea Day

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The following is an email from TED on Pangea Day:

Dear Friends of TED,

Wherever you will be on Saturday May 10, Pangea Day, you are warmly invited to join me and countless others around the world for a powerful, first-of-its kind experience.

Gathered in homes, movie theaters and larger venues, we will participate in a remarkable program of films and talks -- a kind of super-charged, marathon TED session -- celebrating our common humanity. If you think of yourself as something of a global soul, it could be one of the year's highlights. And in fact you could play an invaluable role in helping it realize its full potential...

If you don't have time to read this now, please just calendar Pangea Day for Saturday, May 10th (11am-3pm US West Coast, 2-6pm US East Coast, 7-11pm in UK, 8pm-midnight in Europe and much of Africa, 9pm-1am in the Mideast, 11.30pm-3.30am India, etc.).

On that day, we invite you to gather around a screen with your family, friends and neighbors, preferably from more than one country. Pangea Day will be available on TV in many areas of the world. In the US, the full four-hour program is being carried live on Current TV, available in 41 million homes on the major cable and satellite systems. Current TV pioneered the vision of citizen-empowered media, and we're delighted to be partnering with them. We have similar agreements with the massive satellite network Star TV in China/India/Asia, with MGM Networks in Latin America, with Sky in the UK, several partners in the Mid-East, not to mention Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand and many more. Full details will be posted on our website next week.

And thanks to partnerships with Akamai and MSN, we will also be available on a live, full-screen web-stream everywhere with a broadband Internet connection.

The best way to watch Pangea Day is not just as a normal TV show or web-stream. It should be watched as a community event. We want the sense of the great global village gathering around a campfire. We already know of more than a thousand self-organized screenings taking place in homes, clubs, and movie theaters. We expect thousands more come May 10.

As many of you know, the day is the result of the combined efforts of countless TED supporters around the world, inspired by the TED Prize wish of film-maker Jehane Noujaim. She dreamed of a day when people around the world could share the the same film experience at the same time. The idea has grown into a giant global project... thanks to you. To get a sense of the scale of ambition, please take a minute to watch this beautiful trailer.

Here's the state of play:
- Out of thousands of submissions, we have assembled a fantastic line-up of films. There are about 20 in total, ranging in length from 2 to 15 minutes (most of them around 5). They all tell powerful stories, often without language, of what it is to be human. They are, by turns, funny, touching, dramatic, inspiring. 
- But you won't just be watching films. You'll be watching the world watching. We're bringing in live audience images from around the world. Watching a film about reconciliation is one thing. Watching it while simultaneously witnessing the reactions of people who are supposed to hate each other will be something else altogether. 
- The day also features a dozen powerful three-minute talks from scientists, film-makers, story-tellers and global visionaries. Just as a session at TED takes us on a journey stimulating every part of our brains, so will Pangea Day. Don't dismiss it as a warm & fuzzy peace-fest. The project builds on the latest ideas in anthropology, psychology and technology. We'll be revealing how.
- The whole program is being broadcast in front of a live audience of 1,000 (from more than 50 countries) at a spectacular set being built at a Sony Studios soundstage in Los Angeles. 
- It will look and feel like nothing you've seen before.

If any of this excites you, please would you consider doing something to help the day realize its full potential.  There are three specific things you can do.

1) Make firm plans to participate on May 10th. As a friend of TED, you can apply for free tickets to our main satellite-connected locations in LA, London, Rio de Janeiro, Kigali, Cairo or Mumbai.  If you know you can bring a group of at least six people who will commit to being there for the full program, please write to pangeadaytickets@gmail.com.
Or, attend one of the other screenings listed in your area here. (If you happen to be in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can join a screening being organized there by a great group of TEDsters. Please write to Taylor Milsal, milsal@gmail.com)

2) Host a screening. It could be in your home with a few friends and family. Or you could book a larger venue in your neighborhood and open it for others to come join. You'll just need a large TV screen, the right channel access (or a good Internet connection) and willingness to spend four hours as a global soul.  The Pangea Day website has the details you need here.  Make sure to add your screening to our fast-expanding global map.

3) Most important of all. Please help us spread awareness of Pangea Day. There are numerous ways to do this:

(1) Forward this email to your friends and colleagues... and invite them nicely to do the same! 
(2) Post a story on your website or blog 
(3) Point people to some or all of the following high-impact films
    (a) The Pangea Day website and trailer.
    (b) The series of anthems sung by one country for another that I sent you earlier this week, e.g.
        - France sings for USA
        - Kenya sings for India
    (c) A viral Pangea Day film that debuted at TED this year. 
(4) Make use of these ads on your website. We'd love to see millions of banners out there promoting the day. 
(5) Use any contacts you have to get media coverage for Pangea Day. There are a lot of great angles to this story! 
(6) You could even offer to take out paid advertising in your local media. We have terrific material for print, web and TV.  
(7) Become a fan on Facebook by clicking here

Do please write and tell us what you've done (you can write to my colleague, TED Scribe Jane Wulf, jane@ted.com). We want to recognize and celebrate those who make inspired contributions to the day.

OK, that's the practical stuff. Do you have one more minute? I'd like to just say something more about why Pangea Day is worth your time and effort.

I think we can agree our world is becoming ever smaller/flatter/more inter-connected. An important consequence of this is that all of the issues that matter -- war, terrorism, poverty, disease, human rights, environment, climate change -- can only be tackled now from a global perspective. And yet the people supposedly trying to solve them are almost all serving narrow mandates on behalf of their nation, religion or tribe. There's a terrifying mismatch here between the nature of the problems and the means the world is deploying to tackle them. "The world" itself doesn't even seem to have a seat at the table.

But there's no reason this should be so. It is absolutely possible in the 21st century for us to begin a truly global conversation; to start nurturing that identity we share: one humanity. Some use the language of promoting global citizenship, or reducing cross-cultural suspicion, or expanding our circle of empathy, or eliminating the "us/them" mode of thinking. These goals are all linked, and any progress toward them is, I think, a very big deal.

I was brought up in an international boarding school in India with kids from more than 30 countries. We had a shared experience of each others' lives. Differences in color and race gradually faded.

I'm convinced today's media have the power to humanize "the other". To help people make the mental switch from "them" to "us". Telling stories through film is especially powerful in this regard. At the start of a film, you see someone strange-looking. At the end you feel kinship. There's no moral effort involved here. It's just a natural mental repositioning. Call me idealistic, but I really believe that that mental shift holds the key to our shared future.

Of course, May 10th won't lead to an outbreak of world peace. But I do think it will reveal a sense of possibility: the possibility that there are incredible new ways of using technology as a force for good; that peoples' minds are not locked in a dark place forever; that our global village can start the long journey from "us/them" to "we".

As the Pangea Day website says: Films can't change the world. But the people who watch them can.

Huge thanks from me, Jehane and Pangea Day's executive director Delia Cohen to all who have helped make this project possible, including scores of TEDsters, the amazing Pangea Day and TED teams, TED patrons Shawn and Brook Byers, website-creators Avenue A/Razorfish and our visionary sponsor Nokia.

Please join us for this final, crucial chapter.

Sincerely,

Chris Anderson
TED Curator

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2008/05/05 23:21 2008/05/05 23:21

골방환상곡 급 끝났네.

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완전 의심스럽네.

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2008/05/01 11:47 2008/05/01 11:47

나는 여기 사람이 아니다.

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더 정확히 말하면 나는 사람도 아니다.
당신들은 어떠한지 모르겠다.

나로부터 그렇게 이곳에 대한 보상을 받아내려 하지 말아라.
이렇게 말하는 것은 내가 이기적이어서가 전혀 아니다.
나는 순수하고 진심에 의해 움직이기 때문이다.

당신들에게 각자의 마음 안을 들여다보라고도 말하지 않겠다.
그것을 강요하는 것이 옳다고 생각하지 않아서이다.
(옳은 것 밖의 일은 모두 행하면 안된다고 생각하는 것은 아니다.)

'여기'는 별 것이 아니다.
'내'가 별 것이다.
내가 나의 잘못이 있을 때 보상하는가를 눈여겨 보는 것은 감사히 여기겠다.
그리고 당신이 그렇게 한다면, 내가 당신을 궁금해 해 볼 수도 있다.

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2008/03/31 01:38 2008/03/31 01:38

'부'가 '기품'의 자리를 차지하고 앉은

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이 저질 사회.
가볍고 지나친 평등.
그것을 가질 자격도 갖추기 전에 보장받는 자유.

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2008/02/15 22:20 2008/02/15 22:20

대부분 [완전한 자]가 아닌 사회에서...

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개인들을 그 기능에 가치를 두어 대하는 것이 효율적인 것이 사실이긴 하다.

하지만, 그것은 [완전함]이 불가능한 것이므로 포기하는 경우에 가장 좋은 정책이고,
[완전함]이 상당히 가능한 것이며, 완전함에 도달하는 정도를 중요하다고 생각하는 경우 -- 나의 주장 -- 에는
덜 좋은 정책이다.
물론 쉽고, 빨리 행할 수 있는 정책이긴 하다.

그렇다고 하여 내 주장을 강요하며 이 주장을 바탕으로 할 때 좋은 정책을 건의하지도 못하겠다.
나는 최근 몇 년 사이에, 특히 지난 여름부터,
세상을 가득 채우고 있는 것들이 사람들이기 보다 좀비들인 것을 확신하게 되었다.
절대 좀비가 되지 않는 사람들의 비율은 유지되고 있긴 하지만 정말 작은 비율이고,
나머지 사람들은 빠른 속도로 좀비들이 되어가고 있다. 좀비화된 비율도 심각하다.

이 따위로 생각하고 있던 내게 '나는 전설이다'가 은유적으로 너무나 특별했다.
음...
주인공은 마지막에 전설이 되었다. -_-

빠르고 쉬운, 저 정책을 선택하는 사람의 의도는
그 사람이 누구냐에 따라 달라진다.
(이하, 몸 사리느라 생략)

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2008/02/13 20:22 2008/02/13 20:22

행동하다

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어떠한 행동은
행하고자 마음 먹는 단계와 마음 먹은 바를 실천하는 단계로 이루어지는 것이 일반적.
본능적 행동의 경우에는
행하고자 마음 먹는 단계가 생략되고, 실천하는 단계 자체가 행동을 구성한다.

본능 외의 어떤 행동을 하는 것의 의미 따위를 평가하는 것은
마음 먹는 단계에 대해, 실천 단계에 대해 각기 이루어지는가.
마음 먹었으면 실천하는 것이 자연적이라고 보면
그렇기에 실천하는 것이 별 것 아닌 것인겐가
아니면 그럼에도 실천하지 않으면 대단히 부자연스러운 모습을 보인 것이기에 별 일인가.

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2008/02/13 20:10 2008/02/13 20:10

aleph-taf

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numbers
aleph

aleph-taf
alef-tav
G-d
eternal not everlasting
genesis
the One
원래 있는 하나의 이치, 진리
투명한 사실
유한하지만 경계가 없는 우주
인간, 나

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2007/12/14 07:38 2007/12/14 07:38

자비

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내가 모 자산운용사를 탐탁스럽지 않게 여기는 이유 세 가지가 있다.
하나는 미친듯이 거품을 부글거리며 벤처 붐이 일던 시절의 일.
또 하나는 고용된 어떤 직원(들).
나머지 하나는 그 회사의 최근의 행동.
저들 중 하나 뿐이었다면, 그 하나로 그 회사에 대해 이러쿵 저러쿵 할 생각이 들지 않겠지만,
세개(단 세개 뿐이지만, 각각 아주 다른)의 이유가 쌓이니 각 건으로부터 짐작되는 나쁜 결과(?)가 괜한 넘겨 짚음이 아닐 것 같다는 생각이 든다.

삼성.
후에 해로운 일이 될까봐, 내심 아주아주아주 싫어해온 마음을 말없음으로 감추고 있었는데,
언제인가부터 앞으로도 아쉬울 것 없어 하겠다는 생각이 확고해졌더랬다.
그리고 최근의 시끄러움.
충분히 알지 못하기 때문에 직접적인 내용에 대해 가진 생각을 적기는 곤란하지만,
이미 한국 사람 무리에게 그만큼 냉랭한 시선을 받게 되었다면 그것만으로도.

삼성보다 더 보기 흉한 것들은
이러쿵 저러쿵 할 만하지 않은 자들이 또 신나서 빌붙어 소리 해 대는 꼴.
이런 '보통' 혹은 '평균'인 듯 보이는 얼간이들을 가두어두려면
완벽한 복지의 탈을 쓴 감옥이 필요하다.
아무 불만이 없도록하되, 주제 넘는 야망도 가지지 못하게 할.

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2007/11/12 18:36 2007/11/12 18:36

Noam Chomsky도 시사in 창간에 축하 메시지를 보내왔다

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내가 가장 좋아하는 분들 중 한 분인 Noam Chomsky 교수님께서도
시사in 창간에 축하의 말씀을 보내셨다.
chomsky

이 목록에 있는 다른 분들보다 저 분이 더 훌륭하다는 뜻으로 흥분하여 말하는 것이 아니라
-당연히 아니지! 쓰레기 같은 오해를 하는 사람들이 많이 있어서 굳이 설명을 단다-,
내가 마음을 보내는 곳에 내가 가장 존경하는 사람이 지지를 보내는것을 보니
내 마음의 일관성 있음, 옳음, 지지받음이 기뻐 흥분한 것이다.
오핫핫!

게다가 늘 내 앞이마를 맴도는 단어 'struggle'과 'freedom'이 함께 쓰여 있고.

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2007/11/08 00:37 2007/11/08 00:37

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